Daughter's beating puts judge on spot

Daughter's beating puts judge on spot

The daughter of a judge in Texas, US, who posted a YouTube video of the savage beating she received at his hands, said she had experienced an outpouring of support.

Hillary Adams said that until last week, only a few close friends knew about the 2004 beating by her father, Arkansas County Judge William Adams, who handles child abuse cases.cheap nfl jerseys china He is now the s,cheap adidas shoes,ubject of a police investigation.

The eight-minute video, showing her father lashing her 17 times with a belt and threatening to beat her "into submission," had been watched more than 2 million times by early yesterday.

Hillary Adams said: "I am experiencing some regret because I just pulled the covers off my own father's misbehavior after so many people thought he was such a good person. But so many people are also telling me I did the right thing.

"He is supposed to be a judge." And she said the videoed attack was not a one-off. "It did happen regularly for a period of time," she told NBC's "Today" show yesterday.

In the same interview, Hallie Adams blamed her ex-husband's bouts of violence on his "addiction," calling it a "family secret." She did not elaborate.

Police in Rockport, where the 51-year-old judge lives, opened an investigation on Wednesday after receiving calls from concerned citizens, according to Police Chief Tim Jayroe. William Adams has been receiving threatening phone calls and faxes at the courthouse since the video went online, Arkansas County Sheriff Bill Mills said.

Corpus Christi television station KZTV caught up with the judge while he was getting into a vehicle yesterday. He said it "looks worse than it is.Replica Rolex watches"

He added: "In my mind, I have not done anything wrong other than discipline my child after she was caught stealing. I did lose my temper but I have since apologized."

When told of her father's comments, Hillary Adams said: "It is a shining perfect example of his personality and he believes he can do no wrong. He will cover up rather than admit to what he did and try to come clean."

She stressed she did not post the video as revenge and does not want her father punished. Rather,Demeco Ryans white jerseys she did it because she thinks it will force him to seek help, and because he has harassed her and she thought posting the clip would make that stop.

Pilot error cited in hockey team jet crash

Pilot error cited in hockey team jet crash

A RUSSIAN jet crash that killed 44 people, including an entire professional ice hockey team, was caused by pilots inadvertently putting on the brakes during takeoff, investigators said yesterday, blaming poor crew training and lax oversight.

The Interstate Aviation Committee said the September 7 crash of the Yak-42 plane near the city of Yaroslavl in central Russia occurred because one of the pilots accidentally activated the brakes during takeoff and then pulled the plane up too sharply in a desperate attempt to take off.

It was one of the worst aviation disasters ever in sports, shocking Russia and the world of hockey, as the dead included 36 players, coaches and staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team.Replica Rolex watches The only player who survived the crash later died of burns. A flight engineer was the sole survivor.

Alexei Morozov, who led the investigation, said the crew still had enough time to abort the takeoff safely at the moment when they realized that it had gone wrong. He blamed the plane's owner, Yak-Service, for failing to observe safety standards and adequately train the crew. The company was closed in September by Russia's federal aviation authority following a check that found severe violations.

"The company practically lacked a proper system of flight oversight and controls over air safety," Morozov said, adding that both pilots had flown another type of plane with a slightly different cockpit layout and apparently had never learned the correct position for their feet on takeoff.

He said in the Yak-42, like virtually all other existing Russian and Western planes,Christian Louboutin shoes a pilot steers the aircraft by pressing the lower part of pedals and activates the brakes by pressing their upper part.

But instead of putting their heels on the cockpit floor as regulations require, the crew left their feet resting on the pedals, inadvertently activating the brakes and slowing the plane down on takeoff. They at first didn't notice they were putting on the brakes, and then made the fatal mistake of failing to abort the takeoff, he said.

The plane crashed on the side of the Volga River, 240 kilometers northeast of Moscow.

The team had been heading to Minsk,Wholesale Monster Headphones Belarus, to play its opening game of the Kontinental Hockey League season.

Among the dead were Lokomotiv coach and National Hockey League veteran Brad McCrimmon, a Canadian; assistant coach Alexander Karpovtsev,Lions jerseys authentic one of the first Russians to have his name etched on the Stanley Cup as a member of the New York Rangers; and Pavol Demitra, who played for the St Louis Blues and the Vancouver Canucks and was the Slovakian national team captain.

Conjoined twins have key surgery

Conjoined twins have key surgery

SURGERY began yesterday morning in northern California, United States, to separate Philippines-born twin girls joined at the chest and abdomen.

The complex procedure to separate Angelina and Angelica Sabuco, of San Jose, got under way at Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital around 6:30am local time yesterday.

If all goes according to plan, the 2-year-olds will be out of surgery by mid-afternoon, said hospital spokeswoman Reena Mukamal.

The operation will involve cutting along the girls' skin and muscle and separating their diaphragms and livers. Severing the liver will be the riskiest part of the procedure because of potential blood loss, said Dr Gary Hartman, the lead surgeon.

Hartman, who has done five separation procedures at medical centers around the US, said he expects the operation to go well.

Keeping the girls joined carries bigger risks for their health,,Ronaldo soccer jersey, doctors said. If one conjoined twin dies, the other will die within hours. Muscular and skeletal deformities can also worsen with time.

"We want them to live normally," said Ginady Sabuco, the girls' mother. "When they argue, they can be alone. When they play, they can play together or apart. When they don't want to see each other, they won't have to."

Angelica and Angelina are classified as thoraco-omphalopagus - joined at the chest and abdomen. Their livers, diaphragms, breastbones, chest and abdominal wall muscles are fused. They have separate hearts, brains, kidneys, stomachs and intestines.

The children will not likely need intense physical therapy following surgery but may experience regression with some milestones they've already hit, Hartman said. The girls can walk now despite their face-to-face orientation but may lose that ability, for example, for a few weeks while they recover. They were likely to be hospitalized for two to three weeks.

Angelina and Angelica live in San Jose, California, with their parents and 10-year-old brother.

The occurrence of conjoined twins is estimated to range from 1 in 50,000 births to 1 in 100,000 births worldwide, and the overall survival rate is approximately 25 percent, according to the hospital.